Kendo: phone validation API pricing, 9 plans

22% complete: 2 of the 9 key fieldsSee which

$28.333per 1,000 phonesThe median plan costs $3.331 per 1,000. This plan costs less than 13% of the 211 priced plans.

Plan: Starter one of Kendo's 9 plans

Call: GET /verifyphonenumber Kendo's only call

About this item

Freshness. Kendo doesn't say how fresh an answer is.
2 of the 9 key fields. Its check, Type.
A monthly subscription. You pay $17 for 600 credits, enough for 600 calls. Unused credits expire at the end of the billing period, no rollover.
One call. You send phonenumber to GET /verifyphonenumber. The call returns whether the number is valid.
Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: with conditions. Use data: with conditions.

Other providers' plans with the closest prices per 1,000.

	This planKendo, $17 monthly	IPQualityScore, $139.99 monthly	1Lookup, $2,990 yearly, Growth (annual), POST /phone-scrub	Loqate, $1,000 pack	Melissa, $3,200 pack, 1,000,000 Credits, GET /V4/WEB/GlobalPhone/doGlobalPhone
$ per 1,000	$28.333	$27.998	$29.314	$31.00	$32.00
Completeness	22%	89%	44%	78%	56%
Billing	monthly	monthly	yearly	pay first	pay first
Pay	$17	$139.99	$2,990	$1,000	$3,200
Enough for	600 calls a month	5,000 calls a month	8,500 calls a month	as many as you pay for	100,000 calls
Freshness	not published	not published	not published	live	stored
Who can get it	anyone 18 or over with authority to bind the company or business the account is for	companies, with a business email address	anyone with a business name and a working business email address	anyone	anyone

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-21.

The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.

Aggregators
Aggregators	none

Charges
Per	call
Also pays for	from the same budget: domain searches · email from a LinkedIn profile (/emailbylinkedin, 1 credit each) · email from a name and domain (/emailbyname) · mobile numbers (/mobilebylinkedin, 5 credits each) · reverse email lookup (/namebyemail, 0.4 credits each) · LinkedIn profile URLs (/linkedinbyname, /linkedinbyemail, 1 credit each) · company profiles (/companybydomain, /companybyname)

Not found
$ per 1,000	$0.00

In their words
Their pitch	Perform a comprehensive analysis of phone numbers to ascertain their classification as either cellular or landline, with each verification incurring a credit cost of 1 credit

Data
Keep data	Following termination of these Terms, you may only continue to use the data that was legally obtained through the Services that was stored on your systems during the Term, and subject to the Data Processing Agreement
Use data	You are only granted the right to use the Services and only for the purposes described by the Company in its Websites, these Terms, or any applicable Order or Subscription. You agree not to use, or permit any third party to use, the Services in a manner that violates any legislation or these Terms. You will not provide access to, or give any part of, the Services to any third party, other than setting access for other Users under your Account [...] you will not reproduce, modify, copy, sell, trade, lease, rent or resell the Services. [...] If you're developing an application to interact with the Company's APIs, you must license your application with the Company and meet certain usage, technical, and security requirements. [...] You and your company or business are not a data broker and are not entering into these Terms in order to resell the data received through the Services to third parties.

Plan
Pay	$17
You get	600 credits a month
Enough for	600 calls a month
Expires	at the end of the billing period, no rollover

Rate limit
Batch	1

Speed
Answer	in the call

About the plan
Plan	Starter
Who can get it	anyone 18 or over with authority to bind the company or business the account is for

The 3 fields the plan's answer can hold

valid, line type, credits remaining